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If he is the bartender in Dallas Buyer's Club, then he was in at least two scenes I can think of offhand. I'm trying to recall if he had a line. But I can absolutely picture him being a big burly barkeep at a redneck bar.

What did everyone think of the movie? As Hollywood biopics go, I thought it was pretty standard, but MM's performance lives up to the hype, and Ron Woodroof as a character is endlessly fascinating. The dude was like an capitalistic Robin Hood.

I don't know what's gotten into Matthew McConaughey recently, but he's having a nice little moment. I'm not a huge fan of True Detective, but he's great in it, and he did fine work in his small role in Wolf of Wall Street. I've also heard good things about his work in Killer Joe, Mud, Dallas Buyers Club and Magic Mike.

Did someone smack him around a little and say, "Hey, enough with the romantic comedies. Give a damn?"

Yeah, MM is on quite a roll these days. The talent was never a question (Dazed & Confused, A Time to Kill), but the dedication to his craft was. Dude had the easiest/best job in the world; he got paid millions to show up to the job high and make out with gorgeous co-stars without really exerting himself as an actor. It's like he suddenly got bored with that lifestyle.

His turn-around movie is Tropic Thunder. He might be the best part of a very funny movie. Well, after Robert Downey Jr. I think, however, he has a lot of work to do to make up for being a lead in A Time to Kill, which is up there with the worst movies of all time.

I haven't seen it, but up here, everyone goes crazy because it was directed by a French Canadian, Jean-Marc Vallée (CRAZY is really good).
Vallée is the fifth French Canadian director to make it to the Oscars in the last decade after Yan England for Henry (Best live action Short Film, 2013), Denis Villeneuve for Incendies (Best Foreign Language Film, 2011), Philippe Falardeau for Monsieur Lazhar (Best Foreign Language Film, 2012), and Denys Arcand, who actually won the Oscar for best Foreign Language Film for Les invasions barbares in 2004.

McConaughey mentioned on Fresh Air that he'd fallen into the trap of repeating rom-com roles that he was really good at, but that he could also do in his sleep. They provided no challenges for him, so he made a new rule for himself going forward that he was only going to do films where the script forced him to do unfamiliar things with the character.

Haven't seen DBC yet, but Mud, Lincoln Lawyer, Magic Mike, Bernie, The Paperboy, and Killer Joe were all varying degrees of good.

Like Dock Ellis said, MMc has always had the talent, going back to his great performances in Lone Star and Dazed & Confused. He just spent a decade in the wilderness making fluff for money.

There's a story I've heard a few places about Robert Redford coming up to Paul Wellstone and telling him how much he appreciated his fiery politics. Wellstone thanked him and then asked him what his name was.